MARCUS AURELIUS

“So this is how a thoughtful person should await death: not with indifference, not with impatience, not with disdain, but simply viewing it as one of the things that happen to us.”

When you start understanding death as an event, it loses parts of its grip on your mind.  

• Western society equates nature with the countryside or the mountains. Nature is everywhere, even inside us.
• Any attempt to intentionally be one with nature (or Tao) results in us moving away from it because the attempt itself shows that we are not one with it already.

Part of the stoic practice is related to meditating on the certainty of death and finding freedom is it instead of being overwhelmed by it.

Thinking about death highlights the short duration of life; this practice gives us a sense of urgency to pursue the things that a...